Library

Reports: Climate & energy

Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, February 2025, 34 pp.
This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey assessing Americans’ awareness and understanding of the health harms of global warming; their beliefs about who should take action to protect people from these harms; and their trust in various sources of information. Results are compared with those of previous surveys. more info >

Building an American Energy Future for All
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, February 2025, 21 pp.
Creating a better energy future for Americans depends on expanding reliable and affordable power sources, including clean energy. This report presents recommendations focusing on the economic and environmental benefits of energy investment in local communities. more info >

Benefits to Rural America from the Inflation Reduction Act: Driving Jobs, Investment, and Economic Resilience
E2, January 2024, 24 pp.
Examines the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act's investment in America’s rural economic growth and resilience, finding that in its first year, IRA incentives spurred 52 major rural manufacturing projects that are projected to create 67,000 rural jobs and nearly $2 billion in worker income. more info >

National Climate Assessment
U.S. Global Change Research Program, June 2023
This climate assessment report provides an in-depth look at climate change impacts, risks, and responses in the United States. It provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making related to climate change and its effect the lives of Americans. more info >

Clean Energy Project Development for Low-Income Communities Strengthening the Ecosystem for Delivering Solar Energy and Deep Efficiency Retrofits
Carsey Institute for Public Policy, February 2022, 16 pp.
Scaling clean energy in low-income communities presents challenges. This report outlines a road map depicting the ecosystem needed to deliver clean energy projects to underserved communities.It includes examples of work that different organizations are doing and concludes that more capacity-building funding and support is needed at the grassroots level of the ecosystem. more info >

Wind Energy Development in North Dakota: Best Management Practices
North Dakota Chapter of the Wildlife Society, June 2021, 69 pp.
Developed to provide recommendations for addressing wildlife and habitat concerns at all stages of wind energy development and to assist in minimizing direct and indirect impacts to key fish and wildlife species and habitat while maximizing wind energy benefits. more info >

Understanding Rural Attitudes Toward the Environment and Conservation in America
Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, September 2020, 40 pp.
Results of a national survey about the environment and environmental policy, examining attitudes about conservation, stewardship, climate change, and place identity. more info >

Building Climate Resiliency: Fact Sheets
Center for Rural Affairs, January 2020
A series of four fact sheets that focus on building rural resiliency in the face of climate change and elevating the stories of rural climate leaders. more info >

Climate Change and Its Impact on Infrastructure Systems in the Midwest
Midwest Economic Policy Institute, October 2017, 10 pp.
This study examines how climate change will negatively impact transportation and infrastructure systems across the Midwest. It offers information for policymakers regarding the potential costs and consequences of climate change, and recommends actions to protect communities and the economy. more info >

United States of Climate Change: North Dakota, Winds of Change
The Weather Channel, October 2017
Explores changes in climate and the energy landscape in North Dakota. more info >

Cityscape: Climate Change and City Hall
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 2013
Journal issue focusing on cities and climate change. Topics include: what cities are doing to address sustainability, sustainability as economic development, policy integration for sustainable development, promoting sustainable land development patterns, social actors and policy levers for mitigating greenhouse gases. more info >

Web sites

Climate and Energy Resource for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
Provides free tools, data, and technical expertise about energy strategies, including energy efficiency, renewable energy and other emerging technologies, to help state, local and tribal governments achieve their environmental, energy and economic objectives. more info >